eli5: What it means websites keeps their users passwords in hash form?

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eli5: What it means websites keeps their users passwords in hash form?

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It means they don’t store your password in plain text so anyone with access could read it. Instead they use a mathematical trick to scramble your password so it can’t be read anymore.

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